Alleluia! Christ is Risen!
Messy Church met on Easter Saturday this year so our Easter
Celebration was especially exciting and poignant. Our craft and activity time
involved making chocolate nests, decorating a large cross with resurrection
signs (coloured ribbon and greenery), making drums to accompany our Easter
story procession, putting together an Easter garden, bulb panting, making crosses from sticks, a bulb/flower
treasure hunt (with the message “God is love” to be found) and various games on
the “egg” theme.
For our celebration we acted out the story of the Last
Supper (sharing bread together), the agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, the
road to the Cross, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. As the journey
unfolded we drummed with special rhythms for each part of the story. Everyone
was thoroughly engaged and joyfully drummed shouting “Alleluia” when Rex, our
Jesus, emerged from the tent/tomb. We gathered around the Easter Garden, lit
the Paschal Candle and said prayers of thanks to Jesus. One mum prayed “Thanks
Jesus for Messy Church”. Our Messy church family love to come and learn more
about Jesus whilst having a great time!
